Halfway through my TWW and looking for company. Anyone in the same boat?

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I've still got about a week to go before I can POAS. DH and I have been trying for about 5 months, but I have very irregular cycles so it's all really hard to judge. I usually go about 2 weeks between periods so following that, AF should be due to arrive before the end of this week. But I'm thinking that would be too early to test and am very impatient! I've also been taking agnus castus this month on the advice of a medical friend so I'm feeling tentatively hopeful. Anyone around who wants to wait it out with me and not read too much into every symptom and definitely not take a test every day this week?

It's raining here too!!
hewy - sounds like you've done a brilliant job this month - fingers crossed!! It is so hard not to be devastated when af arrives but think positive, the smep will give us al our bfps

we have sun in Devon as well today!

hewy I feel really positive doing smep as well this month. I got asked to be bridesmaid and dp said to me today that he will have a lot of looking after of a baby to do. so seems us girls aren't the only ones who think ahead! I really hope so much I get a bfp this month. am due to test 9th June. but am away with work until the 10th so hopefully that will take my mind of it - just need to figure out how to refuse alcohol with colleagues without raising suspicions .... any tips?

I also have a wedding and engagement party this weekend aghh summer is wrong time to try n conceive!

PS ff still hasn't marked me Dow. as ovulating. I got peak read on Monday with cbfm - any thoughts?

Hi, just seen this thread and I am 7dpo today. I had a drop in temperature this morning and just this evening I have got really bad abdominal cramps. I dont know if it is anything implantation related or just digestive. I have so much paperwork to do tonight and feel so ill I stopped eating dinner and had to have a paracetamol just now :( Anyone else had this? Probably nothing.

hewy I'm feeling it's a 'all or nothing' month this month too. AF hit me hard this month but I've bounced back surprisingly quickly - already planning first seduction of DH!

birchy from next week on I'm going totally tee-total. I have my own wedding coming up in the summer so im packaging it as pre-wedding detox. It's so hard otherwise though isn't it?

arty hope you're feeling a bit better. I find the 1ww much worse (7dpo+) fx for you. I've just ordered a bbt thermometer and was going to ask for a brief 'how to' - what is a drop in temp post-ov meant to indicate?

I thought I was cd1 today but AF is still so, so light (barely enough for a panty-liner, nowhere near enough for a pad or tampon) so I'm re-adjusting cd1 to cd3 as it started on Monday (and I want to start dtd as soon as possible!). Definitely not pregnant (absolutely did not take another test this afternoon !) but what does a light period mean? It has been late and light. I'm trying to be super positive and telling myself that perhaps I've been 'almost pregnant'! But a tiny part of me is thinking 'early menopause'?!!!

Hi Diana, the dip in temperature can be a sign of implantation. My temperature fell by 0.3 so quite a lot on a fertility chart. Feeling a bit better. Yes this next week is hard and I try not to think about it too much

My excuse for not drinking, or only having small bit depending on time of month, is calorie counting. Not sure they buy it but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Oh hewy good idea - as I've just been asked to be bridesmaid maybe I can say that! Although I will be feeding up on te free cakes during the conference lol

birchy - that's so lovely of your dh planning ahead like that! Glad you're feeling so positive doing smep! I was but this morning still a bloody negative on ovulation test - I'm cd13 - so we dtd last night so should skip tonight but really thought it would be positive today so had planned a romantic night tonight - my stupid body can't get anything right
Hi arty - how are you this morning? Hope you are feeling better. Keeping fingers crossed for you that af stays away.
diana - are you having a light period still? I had a heavy one this month and wondered whether it was early menopause too!! How exciting you've got your wedding this summer
I've been asked to be a bridesmaid too - if I did get a bfp this month my due date would be around the time of the wedding , don't think there's much chance of it though!

remember - have you tested this morning?
red - any news?
greyhorse - how about you?
brown how's your tww going?
haquoi - hope you're having a nice holiday

diamond so lovely that you're making an effort to keep the romance in ttc! Have your romantic night anyway and enjoy! I think on smep if we were in the same situation I would just dtd tonight then skip tmrw until +opk.

My period has all but stopped now. I am trying to trust my body and not be too alarmist but I have also just booked a docs app for lunchtime! No harm in going to get checked out and if I don't do it this week I know I won't get round to it until the summer holidays.

Hi diana - thank you! yes I think you're right - we'll have our romantic night anyway and dtd . Hopefully I'll get a positive opk soon though - starting to worry it'll never turn positive!
Good luck at the doctors - sure everything will be fine but as you say no harm in getting checked out, let us know how you get on

diamond would you normally get a positive so early? I didn't get my peak reading until cd16.. Which is quite normal for me. I do use cbfm though which also gives 4 days I high readings for me beforehand as well.

Can I join please, I'm at the beginning of TWW, had a chemical last cycle and feeling a little crazy.

I'm on third cycle TTC and use the CBFM.

Welcome fuzzy - sorry to hear about your chemical pg

if you don't mind me asking how early did you test? I am also using the cbfm but don't know when I should be doing pg test from

Where in your cycle are you for this month?

:( ok so trying not to panic... Doc has taken blood and asked lots of questions about hot flushes and early menopause :( she's going to try to rush results through so I may know more by tmrw (testing for LH surge I think). Had a little cry in the doctors - really thought I'd be sent packing with a 'nothing to worry about'.

Hi Birchy, I'm on a medical trial and meant to test from CD15, the first positive was 7DPO, then it turned negative and then I got another positive 11DPO.

That's after the first smiley face.

My cycles are 25 days long. I usually get the smiley on CD13 & CD14.

birchy - I normally ovulate about cd16-20 so yes it is a bit early I think but last month I only had high fertility not peak fertility, although I ran out of sticks on cd20 so am worried I won't ovulate again this month. good to hear you didn't get your peak til cd16 though so it's not just me who is a bit later
diana - please try not to worry, it sounds like your doctor is being thorough, I can understand how you're feeling and I would feel exactly the same but it might be nothing to worry about at all - try not to panic, we're all here to get you through it x
Welcome fuzzy - sorry to hear about your chemical but think lots of positive thoughts for this cycle. The tww is horrible isn't it, coming on here will help though, everyone is very supportive

diamond is it possible you missed it last month? I got a peak on cd16 with my cbfm. Then as it automatically gives you two peak days in a row followed by a high, I then used a different opk stick on cd17 which was negative (blank circle). FF is suggesting that I also ovulated on cd16, which I should not have done until cd17 (if I am understanding correctly, ovulate about 24 hours after peak reading). So therefore I am feeling very luck to have caught it as I must have just caught the end of it.

Also what sticks do you use? I use to use cheap ones, then I got 7 days of ovulating lol following month I got no days of ovulating - so I binned all those and since using cbfm I have a much better understanding of what is happening. I use an app and it suggested that I would ovulate on cd18 and I knew that was wrong from the start of the month and predicted cd16 from previous results on cbfm.

fuzzy thats a bit confusing, positive, negative, positive ... head mess for you! how are you finding testing every day? I do envy shorter cycles as more opportunity to try, my cycles can range from 28-35 days. avg 30-32

diana my heart goes out to you - but try not to worry - doctors often do tests to rule things out and help narrow things down. When you think of all the tests they do - thyroid, chlamydia antibodies etc - its not because they think that these are the problem... Sending you lots of hugs and hoping it goes quickly until you get your results as the waiting is so difficult.

Birchy if you used the clearblue double hormone indicator ovulation stick, the first item you test using it you always get a blank circle it uses that to calibrate, the following test the next day is the one that begins measuring the hormone (can you tell I have spent ages reading and using all sorts of OPK's?).

Testing everyday at least gets the POAS addiction out of the way, but last month when I got the pregnant it was really heart wrenching when it turned negative, I'm supposed to wait for three positives in a row and then they'll book me in for scans (dildo cam), consultant did confirm it was a chemical pregnancy, I surprised myself at how sad I was over it.

Diana, really try not to panic, it could be a process of elimination that they're doing. Sounds really harrowing for you tho, I hope it resolves quickly.

birchy - this month I've got the pink clearblue that only gives blank and fixed smileys but last month I had the advanced clearblue with the flashing and fixed smileys. Yes it's possible I could have missed it last month. Your cbfm sounds really good, I wish I could get one of them. Lol I know what you mean about the cheaper ones - they used to drive me insane and never gave me a positive result!! My cycles are like yours too in length- range from 27-33 days - which also tends to confuse me!! This ttc lark really isn't easy is it?! It's funny I've become an expert on ovulation, luteal phases etc etc and yet still don't have a bloody clue what my body is doing most of the time!

fuzzy - I bet that was utterly heart wrenching . I am a total POAS addict as well but in the last 11 months only had evaps, never an actual line, and that's only because I'm stupid and keep looking at tests well after the 10 minutes. I so hope you get your bfp this month and it is all fine

fuzzy you have just explained - I think i did use one of those - the clear blue one that gives fixed and flashing smileys. I am nearly sure last cycle that I got a smiley last month though when I did same thing (Im only using them up as I have about 10 left over from when I got cbfm) so who knows what happened there. I am also using the same little plastic end bit from a previous cycle - which I also dont think you are suppose to do lol but I just cant bring myself to throw away sticks I haven't pee'd on (oh dear what have I become).

diamond the cbfm - to be honest I am a little disappointed in it - I dont think it does anything above and beyond the sticks other than keep a record on the machine - which most of us do on apps anyway. I just had a mad moment of depressed at bfn that I went and bought it - I still haven't told dh how much it was - but he hasn't asked either hehe So i dont think I would recommend to people to get them - I could have two nice pair of shoes for it! That would have kept me occupied in 2ww I also thought sticks would have been cheaper - but nope not that much difference

Thank you Diamond. I'm trying not to symptom spot (and failing, I have every symptom ever, and none all at the same time). Felt really sad for DP he was so thrilled when I got the positive. Onwards and upwards.

With OPK's they give out different readings depending on how close to ov you are, really think it can be missed, I know I began OV Sunday evening I could feel it and had ewcm but the CBFM didn't show peak till next morning when I was supposed to test, then it automatically gives another peak the following day then a high.
To know exactly think you'd need to POAS several times a day, I bet it would give different readings, bet mine would have been positive the evening of Sunday whereas in the morning after it was showing as peak.

Hi Ladies,

Didn't test this am as DP and I decided to have a lie-in before I had to go to work and I didn't get round to it!! Will have to do one before I go out to work in a bit.

Getting stressed here as, yesterday, DP rang GP surgery for result of his amen analysis sample last week and receptionist said he's to make an appointment to see GP and wouldn't say anything more. Now I'm worried it's not good news as I'd have thought GP would say all ok if it was. Have managed to get an appointment for next Wednesday morning at 8:30 but am stressing about it - and probably will until next Wednesday!!

remember I seen on a thread here that someone else said you always have to speak to doctor for result as they are complicated to read and not to read to much into it. Unfortunately I can't tell you as dh kit is still in bathroom unused - we are waiting to see result this month.

Although when GP gave it to us she said it is not unusual to have a low result one time an that it would just be repeated. Interestinly she said that sperm take about 3 months to be made so it could be something 3 months ago that is just affecting sperm that month. I thought sperm were instant! Every day is a school day!! So try not to worry until you need to worry as it may all be nothing!

I'm so thankful I seem to have such a good GP she really took the time to explain everything - even that having sex 3 times a week means penetration LOL